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Google added a new opt-in experiment for search results: SearchWiki with sound. By now you might have noticed you can click the “x” next to a specific result, resulting in an animation of an explo...

Google has released a template to create collaborative pixel art in Google Spreadsheets. Just change the background color of cells in this copy of the spreadsheet I made, and we’ll see where it goe...

“Colorful soup” – BunteSuppe.de – is the name of a German collaborative art tool. Just drag & drop any tile on the screen to create a larger picture. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Color Soup, a Co...

Google has gone live with a big change to their result pages, at least for those of you who are logged in (if you’re not seeing it yet, it may still be rolled out for your Google Account). It’s ca...

EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share ...

Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are th...

The Shanghaiist reports:
With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to wi...

A couple of months ago it was mentioned here that Google’s web mail client Gmail might get themes, like a black-and-green terminal view, and the waiting time seems to be over soon – Google announce...

LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com allows you to enter any search query, then grab the resulting permalink to share it with someone else. For instance, if someone in a forum would ask “What does ’AFAIK’ sta...

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Google released an app they call Search-based Keyword Tool. Google says this tool “generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website” and in...